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The article says Although countries like China, Thailand and Uzbekistan were still censoring part or all of Wikipedia by the time the researchers wrapped up th
by Amulet- 9y ago
The article says
Although countries like China, Thailand and Uzbekistan were still censoring part or all of Wikipedia by the time the researchers wrapped up their study
The top comment might be asking about the "were still censoring part" of the article.
- zeta0134 9y agoOh, huh! I missed that entirely, now I'm curious too. HTTPS should make that difficult, but China has been known to employ all sorts of weird shenanigans-- perhaps they're running a "trusted' MitM as part of the great firewall? I know that certain companies (like Google and Microsoft) will actively censor themselves to continue to operate within China, but I figured Wikipedia would be against that practice on principal. Now I'm curious as to how it's done.
- beefsack 9y agoNitpick: Google opted to pull out of mainland China instead of self-censoring. They moved Chinese operations to Hong Kong, but operate uncensored there.
- bumblebeard 9y agoGoogle was perfectly willing to self-censor in China until they were hacked by the Chinese government in 2010. That's when Google China moved to Hong Kong. https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...
- matt4711 9y agoI think china blocks zh.wikipedia.org but all other languages are not blocked.